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Any employers who are found to have breached any of these conditions are liable to have their quota withdrawn and may be debarred from participation in the Scheme in future.
(c) The labour importation schemes are operating on the principles that local workers are given priority in filling vacancies and that they should not be displaced by imported workers. Measures are in place to require employers to register their vacancies with the Labour Department for a specified period for the purpose of recruiting local workers and to pay imported workers no less than the median monthly wages of local workers in comparable positions. Given this condition and the fact that the total number of workers permitted under both the General Labour Importation Scheme and ACP Scheme amount to less than 1% of our total labour force, they should have very little impact on the wage movements of local workers.
The labour importation schemes are also carefully controlled, and targeted precisely towards the alleviation of shortages in the bottleneck areas of our economy. The imported workers are meant to supplement the local labour force in areas where To maintain the they are in shortage, so as to sustain economic growth. competitiveness of Hong Kong as an open and flexible economy, there is a continued economic need to retain this policy option of employing foreign workers where they
are necessary.
End/Wednesday, October 25, 1995
Measures to promote visual arts development
The following is a question by the Hon Elizabeth Wong and a written reply by the acting Secretary for Recreation and Culture, Mrs Rachel Cartland, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday): Question:
Will the Government inform this Council:
a) of its policy towards visual arts in general and the encouragement of local artists in particular;
not;
b) whether it intends to set up a school/college for the visual arts; if not, why